So here's my question: Did any of those Boldface names in the opening-night audience ever say they got conned?

Certainly the show drew cheers from its opening-night audience.

The opening-night audience was anything but typical.

The enthusiasm of the opening-night audience has become a theatrical legend.

A large, rapt opening-night audience sat for four hours on Wednesday and seemed happy to do so.

Not that all in the opening-night audience for the revival were enthusiastic.

Just to get into the theater, the 700 members of the opening-night audience had to fight their way through a surging crowd of disappointed ticket-seekers.

But that, for one thing, would have eliminated the soloists the Philharmonic evidently feels it needs to draw a well-heeled opening-night audience.

An inordinately zealous opening-night audience partly ruined it for me, however.

"I trust we shall see you in our opening-night audience, Miss Prudence."